Reduced natural oscillatory frequency of frontal thalamo-cortical circuits in schizophrenia

摘要

ContextConverging evidence from electrophysiological studies suggests that in individuals with schizophrenia EEG fast frontal oscillations are reduced. It is still unclear whether this reduction reflects an intrinsic deficit of underlying cortical/thalamo-cortical circuits, and whether this deficit is specific for frontal regions. Recent electrophysiological studies in healthy individuals have established that, when perturbed, different brain regions oscillate at a specific, intrinsically generated dominant frequency, the natural frequency.